This is How Movies Should Be Made

Best movie of this year hands down!

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

This was really a bad movie. It looks like it was filmed using a Best Buy camcorder and lighting from Rent-All®. The "director" also starred in the movie. Some a**-hat (*=s) named Danny Provenzano. Never seen him and never want to again. He doesn't look Italian at all and has this strange, crooked face with huge flaring nostrils. Truly unsettling to look at. His acting is another story. It's just one cliché after another. He tries to act New York Italian but comes off like St. Paul, MN actor at the Eau De Claire Wisconsin Community Theatre trying his best to pull off Sonny from The Godfather. He's most likely making ends meet by giving those acting classes to the special needs kids (and I respect him from that) but he really shouldn't be staring in his own movie.Now for that scene I mentioned in the title of my review. This one scene is enough for you "Awful Movie Fans" to perk up and head straight to Amazon or what ever dark hole of a rental store you can find this turd:The scene happens at a Chinese restaurant. Four members of a crew lead by Eau De Claire Community Theatre's favorite son Danny Provenzano (Character name: Nicky) are sitting around the table. "It's time to try those improvisation chops!" thinks Danny. So for no reason, his character starts telling a rediculous nonsensical story about a "6 foot 8 inch" man he and the mobster to his right had to kill. It's clearly improvised as seen on the faces of the other "Goombahs" around the table as Danny is talking. Danny finishes the first part of his just made up story and looks to the other actor to jump in. Oh, he does - adding his own brand of improvisation. Now it's back to Eau De Claire Danny who actually contradicts what he said earlier and also mixes up the improvised facts laid out by the other actor. This goes on for so so so long and it is so so so bad on so so so many levels. If anyone other than Eau De Claire Danny had directed the movie, it would have been left on the cutting room floor in its entirety. But there it is --- for all you lucky viewers to see. And see you must. So how bad is this movie? Think: Graveyard scene in Plan 9 and you'll get the idea!

Nice to see the mob genre still alive, this piece of material represents the mid echelon (quality wise) of the "lesser known mob movies".Filled with typical mob movie actors such as Frank Vincent, and Vincent Pastore, complemented by James Caan, the movie starts of in a typical mob conversation around the table, which is well acted, filmed and directed. The ad lib acting makes it work. The story line is somewhat bold, yet true to facts, since the mafia is now known to operate through cyberspace, but the extend of this heist they're planning make it unrealistic for me. The overall acting has its ups and downs, several ad lib conversations are hilarious in character, and certainly reminiscent of the famous "what do you mean I'm funny" bit by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas", and other scenes and characters are severely overdone, or all out amateuristic and bad. All in all I had a fine time watching this movie, it's certainly worth at least one viewing, since it's certainly NOT the worst mafia movie out there.Not a must have DVD, but for completionists, such as me.

I don't know where the negativity in comments is coming from. I don't remember a movie in which young, tech hip criminals are integrated with old line mobsters as a plot. The conflicts and tension resulting from this clash are numerous and nicely developed right up to the closing scene. ********* Spoiler Alert *********** The sit down meeting at which the deal is presented is terrific. Here a billion dollar computer heist is being presented and one of the old guys starts talking about his kid playing video games. Other major conflicts emerge as the "loose ends" are tied up later, and the final scene is terrific as well. All part of the clash in style and values.The weakest part of the movie is the FBI. The characters are way too stereotyped, not well acted, and poorly developed.This film a 1?? Everybody has their own tastes and preferences, but that sounds like somebody has an axe to grind.

I saw this movie this week in FL and thought it was a great movie. The story was exciting and unique -- and the acting was wonderful. The direction was bold and the writing was crisp and authentic. With all the bad movies out there, it is a suprise that this isn't in more theaters. I hope we can be expecting more films of this caliber from Danny Provenzano.